It is unbelievable that a device such as this did not have a device on board which would self destruct either on impact or by remote control. But with all the other stupid things our government is doing including the EPA it would come as no surprise. Any one even with only a high school education would have to take such an incident in to account that sooner or later such a high tech device may fall in to enemy’s hands and needs to be destroyed. Unless of course it was designed as a “Trojan Horse” but I am not so sure our government has the capacity of such a brilliant thought. The Israelis may be, our government I doubt it.
Good points. Another thing” I should be SOP - standard operating proceedure to destroy any high tech weapons system that would fall int the hands of an enemy. One of the smart bombs (JDAMS) would have done that.
That drone probably had a very special payload, Stuxnet’s younger brother. Can’t wait for them to download it and pass it to all our enemies.
I don’t think it needs a self destruct device. It simply needed to be programmed NOT to land in enemy territory. This craft is a technological marvel yet they neglected possibly the most obvious detail.